Malheur. The Department of the Interior is on the case. Beautiful pics of wildlife inside the link.

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http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Malheur/
[font size=5]US Dept of Interior @Interior
@DebGaudet We understand your concern about Malheur. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]We're working[/FONT] with @FBI [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]to resolve the situation as quickly as possible[/FONT].
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Malheur Refuge Closed
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is closed until further notice.

An unknown number of armed individuals have broken into and occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge facility near Burns, Oregon. While the situation is ongoing, the main concern is employee and public safety; we can confirm that no federal staff were in the building at the time of the initial incident. We will continue to monitor the situation for additional developments.


[font size=5]Sally Jewell was sworn in as the 51st Secretary of the Interior on April 12, 2013.[/font]

In nominating Jewell, President Obama said, “She is an expert on the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]energy[/FONT] and climate issues that are going to shape our future. She is committed to building our nation-to-nation relationship with Indian Country. She knows the link between conservation and good jobs. She knows that there’s no contradiction between being good stewards of the land and our economic progress; that in fact, those two things need to go hand in hand.”

As Secretary of the Interior, Jewell leads an agency with more than 70,000 employees. Interior serves as steward for approximately 20 percent of the nation’s lands, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, and other public lands; oversees the responsible development of conventional and renewable [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]energy supplies on public[/FONT] lands and waters; is the largest supplier and manager of water in the 17 Western states; and upholds trust responsibilities to the 567 federally recognized American Indian tribes and Alaska Natives.

Prior to her confirmation, Jewell served in the private sector, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of Recreation Equipment, Inc. (REI). Jewell joined REI as Chief Operating Officer in 2000 and was named CEO in 2005. During her tenure, REI nearly tripled in business to $2 billion and was consistently ranked one of the 100 best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine.

Before joining to REI, Jewell spent 19 years as a [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]commercial banker[/FONT], first as an [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]energy[/FONT] and natural resources expert and later working with a diverse array of businesses that drive our nation’s economy. Trained as a [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]petroleum engineer[/FONT], Jewell started her career with [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Mobil Oil Corp[/FONT]. in the oil and gas fields of Oklahoma and the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]exploration and production[/FONT] office in Denver, Colo. where she was exposed to the remarkable diversity of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]our nation’s oil and gas resources[/FONT].

An avid outdoorswoman, Jewell finds time to explore her backyard in the Pacific Northwest where she enjoys skiing, kayaking, hiking and other activities. She has scaled Mount Rainier on seven occasions, and recently climbed Vinson Massif, the highest mountain in Antarctica.

Jewell has worked to ensure that public lands are accessible and relevant to all people from all backgrounds, and to build a connection between the great outdoors and a new generation of Americans.

Jewell is a graduate of the University of Washington. She and her husband, Warren, have two adult children, Peter and Anne.

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1. Open letter to the Obama Administration regarding the Wildlife Refuge Siege

Open letter to the Obama Administration regarding the Wildlife Refuge Siege
Jan 23, 2016

My name is Judy Calman, I'm an attorney for an conservation non-profit in New Mexico. I am extremely familiar with the Bundy/anti-federal/Public land takeover movement, and have been working against it for many years in the Southwest.

I am becoming increasingly angry that the Justice Department and Administration (I'm sending this email to the Justice Department too) has not taken ANY action regarding the illegal seizure of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

Trust me, I completely understand the desire to avoid a violent confrontation, and I agree with that goal. I also understand that it's a complicated issue, and that they should not be turned into martyrs for their "movement" in any way.

That being said, I am completely baffled as to why the Administration has done NOTHING while a community is terrorized, while active threats against the US Government are being made, while they're trying to recruit others to revolt, while federal employees are forced out of their jobs, and perhaps most importantly, why land that is supposedly publicly owned and publicly accessible to all Americans is now held at gunpoint by an insane militia group and not open to the public.

This whole thing has been exacerbated by the Government's so-far refusal to prosecute Cliven Bundy, and this anti-government/anarchy movement has Westerners really scared. And it's not going away. Allowing this to continue convinces these people that they can get away with things like this. Because clearly they can!

I am not necessarily suggesting anything drastic. But ....

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Getting Occupiers of the Historic Oregon Malheur Evicted - G.O.H.O.M.E.

Number of Days the Malheur NWR Occupied: 22
Amount Pledged Per Day: $3044.50
Total Amount Pledged: $70,129.00 Number of pledges: 1468

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2. Thanks for that. I was wary of using the Sarcasm smilie on my post to not be accused of

scapegoating. Or is accountability too much to ask. Maybe some yellow on words like "Mobil Oil Corp." will highlight some irony instead.

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3. #FluffyUnicorn " It’s Legal To Kill A Cop Who’s “Unlawfully Trying to Arrest You"

http://www.wweek.com/2016/01/23/montana-militant-ryan-payne-its-legal-to-kill-a-cop-whos-unlawfully-trying-to-arrest-you/
Missoula Independent profile offers fullest picture of Bundyland security chief.
By Aaron Mesh

Want to know more about the armed seditionists holding the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?

Look to their hometown papers. .....

he came to believe that slavery never really existed in the United States and that African Americans in the antebellum South “didn’t view themselves as slaves.” He came to believe in “an effort by some Jews to control the world.” He came to believe the founders of the United States intended for the states to act as sovereign countries. He came to believe taxes are a form of “legal plunder.” He came to believe names are spelled in all-caps on driver’s licenses because U.S. citizens are actually “corporate entities.” He came to believe U.S. courts are actually foreign admiralty courts. He came to believe that “in most states you have the lawful authority to kill a police officer that is unlawfully trying to arrest you.” He came to believe when a newborn child’s footprint is made on a birth certificate, that child is effectively entering a life of servitude to the U.S. government, which borrows money from China based on that child’s estimated lifetime earning potential.

Read the whole story. It's crazy good.

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4. Steve Duin: Free to wreak havoc in Harney County

Good photo gallery of the counter protestors:

Steve Duin: Free to wreak havoc in Harney County

.... Ammon and Ryan Bundy, LaVoy Finicum and a dozen other well-armed malcontents ... have occupied a federal bird sanctuary to confront the oppressive overlords who threaten our liberties.

But they do so in a demilitarized zone where they are free to entertain New Mexico state legislators and receive X-rated care packages through the U.S. Postal Service.

Free to threaten federal range conservationists and confront visitors to the refuge with assault rifles.

Free to roam Harney County, where they have seized and vandalized public land, .....

.... Ammon Bundy initially claimed he was protesting the prison sentence of ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son. Now, he's pledging to confront agents from the U.S. Forest Service or BLM in any grazing-fee dispute.

"In the midst of this armed standoff, he is trying to engineer future armed standoffs," Suckling says. "That's the scariest thing. He's trying to replicate this.

"This is not on a trajectory toward a peaceful resolution."

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